Iraq Off The Beaten Path Tips by fabrice

the symbol of the ninive culture

ninive,ninawah in arabic, is very near the city of mosul in northern iraq

ishtar in babylone,but it has...

ishtar in babylone,but it has been rebuilt,it is a new one,there is a better one in the museum of berlin!!

terrible...

terrible experience:samarra----we ate in a little restaurant there,but some saudi pilgrims arrived and we were told to leave,because moslems do not want to eat with non-moslems(I imagine if in france,I ask in a restaurant to throw away all the arabs!!!).Then we visited the ziggurat(a tower like the tower of babel)where I had such a vertigo on the top that I almost died.

kerbala,in the shiite region